Oregon Census Visualization Example

Sunday, June 30, 2019 12:39PM

Data Acquisition

Column

ACS Variables

Load ACS health insurance coverage for Oregon

Visualization

References

Reference material

Creating beautiful demographic maps in R with the tidycensus and tmap packages http://zevross.com/blog/2018/10/02/creating-beautiful-demographic-maps-in-r-with-the-tidycensus-and-tmap-packages/#part-2-creating-beautiful-maps-with-tmap
Spatial data in tidycensus https://walkerke.github.io/tidycensus/articles/spatial-data.html
Generating metropolitan subsets of Census data with R and tigris https://walkerke.github.io/2017/05/tigris-metros

Useful commands

tigris rbind

orwa <- rbind_tigris(tracts("OR", cb = TRUE),  tracts("WA", cb = TRUE))

https://github.com/rte-antares-rpackage/leaflet.minicharts

Radar charts for showing attributes of different segments (median values) https://github.com/mangothecat/radarchart

https://github.com/garthtarr/pairsD3